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Mary Ann Douglas: Sensory
by Dave Nathan
This is California native Mary Ann Douglas' second album. And like her first, it is made up entirely of her own compositions. Too often, this is a recipe for disaster. Not here, though. Mary Ann Douglas is an excellent tunesmith and a fine vocalist. More good news! She has garnered some of San Diego's finest musicians ...
Various: Once in a Blue Moon -The Love Songs Of Ellen Vanderslice
by Dave Nathan
Ellen Vanderslice is one of those lucky people who seems to have managed to find enough space in her life to engage in two activities she really likes. By day, Vanderslice is an architect and urban designer in Portland, Oregon and an internationally known, outspoken pedestrian rights activist. By night, she writes songs and performs as ...
David Leonhardt Jazz Group: Plays Gershwin
by Dave Nathan
Pennsylvania-based David Leonhardt Jazz Group, noted for its presentation of both straight and modern jazz, eschews the latter on this CD turning its considerable talents and energy to the music of the Gershwin Brothers. One of the Group's stalwarts, Village Vanguard Orch. veteran Ralph Lalama, sets aside his hard bop sax as he revels in the ...
The Steve Grover Quartet with Brad Terry: Remember
by Dave Nathan
For his second album for Invisible Music, superb Maine-based drummer Steve Grover has gotten together long time collaborator, clarinetist Brad Terry for an appealing program of Grover compositions. Grover, winner of the 1995 Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz/BMI Jazz Composers Competition, has been an adjunct professor of Music at the Bates, Bowdoin and Maine Universities as ...
Drew Phelps: Round to It
by Dave Nathan
Bassist Drew Phelps grew up in North Texas, in Denton to be exact. While playing bass guitar while in junior high school, he was tuned onto the music of the Allman Brothers and Freddie King. During the 1980's Phelps hooked up with veteran modern jazz musicians like James Clay and Nuradeen Fameen and after a two-year ...
Mark Kleinhaut Trio: Secrets of Three
by Dave Nathan
Maine based Invisible Music Records is strongly ensconced in the world of jazz recording and with its recent series of releases its position is even more secure. The label provides a sounding board for talented musicians, mostly Maine residents, who see their mission to add to the literature of jazz music. But the music they create ...
Scott Wilkie: More Than You Know
by Dave Nathan
P>Smooth jazz, contemporary jazz, fusion or what I like to call it, the new beach music, Scott Wilkie's second album for Narada is another set of never getting to the point compositions. All of the songs on the play list were written and arranged by Wilkie and all sound the same. It seems these young players ...
Don Friedman Quartet: Match Point
by Dave Nathan
Born in San Francisco to a musical family, (his mother was an opera singer), Don Friedman has been known for a long time as a musician's musician, never quite achieving the public notoriety his piano styling deserves. As a young man in San Francisco, he played with the créme de la créme of the West Coast ...
Jonah Jones Quartet: Jumpin with Jonah
by Dave Nathan
Jazz gurus (self appointed or otherwise) typically dismiss Jonah Jones as a piece of fluff, more interested in dispensing sterilized jazz pablum to the public rather than being creative and innovative. Jones decided not to climb on the Be Bop train of the 1940's and 1950's, pretty much ignoring the new paths being struck by fellow ...
John Eaton: John Eaton Live at Steinway Hall
by Dave Nathan
This album is another entry in Chiaroscuro's Steinway Hall series, a collection that sits at the same high level as Concord Jazz' Maybeck Hall series. Featured on this session is pianist John Eaton who has been performing in the Washington, D.C. area for more than 50 years but who have attained the level of national acclaim ...
